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Battle Over N.C. “Bathroom Law” Exposes Fissures on The Right
A week after Ted Cruz’s defended it in a failed attempt to boost his presidential bid, the battle over North Carolina’s anti-LGBT “bathroom bill” is exposing fissures in the conservative movement.
Trump's Uphill Battle For Bernie Voters
"I think I'll get a lot of his supporters" Donald Trump said on CNN of Bernie Sanders voters. A few seconds earlier, Trump smeared Sanders, saying he "could be beyond a socialist." That sums up his problem.
Failure of Korean Trade Deal Voids TPP
A backlash against so-called free trade is evident in the groundswell of support for insurgent presidential candidates on the left and right who denounce these failed policies. The first victim of this uprising should be the proposed TPP.
Dr. Billionaire, Meet Dr. Salk
Can we conquer disease without concentrating wealth in a precious few pockets? Not-so-distant American history offers a clear and encouraging answer. The victory over polio a half-century ago created no billionaires.
Progressive Breakfast
Trump Alienates GOP Donors With Kochs sitting on their wallet, Trump turns to RNC. NYT: "Donald J. Trump took steps to appropriate much of the Republican National Committee’s financial and political infrastructure ... Trump has no fund-raising apparatus to resort to...
Donald Trump's Trick To Pose as a Populist
Donald Trump has a trick he likes to use when he wants to communicate two different messages to two different constituencies: incoherence. It doesn't take much to expose incoherence, yet it seems to flummox media headline writers.
Derailed in D.C.: “Bomb Trains," Poison Tracks and My Chemical Exposure
A CSX freight train derailed in Washington, D.C. last week. To be fair, our society has been consistently indifferent to railway accidents everywhere. But each is a warning.
Interest on the Debt Is Near a Post-War Low
As the media erupt in fury over Donald Trump's comments on the debt, it is worth taking the opportunity to remind people that the interest burden on the national debt is near a post-World War II low.
Progressive Breakfast
Burning Issues: Buying Weapons That Don’t Work The F-35 fighter place is a textbook example of how tax dollars are wasted on Pentagon weaponry, Mandy Smithberger, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight, explains in this...
Burning Issues: Buying Weapons That Don't Work
The F-35 fighter place exemplifies how tax dollars are wasted at the Pentagon and how "political engineering" makes a project "too big to fail," Project on Government Oversight's Mandy Smithberger explains in this Burning Issues video.
